Author: Alicia Polk

https://youtu.be/gifrhP0TETs The Key Condition There’s a key condition for recovery. Do you have any idea what it is? If you said safety or safe living circumstances, you are right! If…

https://youtu.be/IIWw8a1jp30 DID doesn’t just happen randomly or without reason. In fact, it takes fairly specific circumstances and traumas to develop DID. I want to focus on one circumstance that sets…

https://youtu.be/gd5mAAHnb7Q If you’re early in your recovery journey you might be confused by your system and feel overwhelmed by the other parts. You can use the Structural Dissociation model to…

https://youtu.be/x5jEvCP34HE What is Blending? Before we can talk about unblending, we first have to understand what blending is. Have you ever felt some emotion very strongly but couldn’t point to…

https://youtu.be/tFraF3Ih-zQ You may be in your 30s, 40s, 50s, or older and suddenly realizing or suspecting that you have DID. And you may understandably be wondering how you could appear…

https://youtu.be/-_PxGYG5sug Phase One: Stabilization Experts have come to an agreement that trauma therapy, no matter what kind of therapy is used, should occur in three phases. This is sometimes called…

https://youtu.be/3r5kmsrrEeU I’ve been making videos and talking about trauma for months now and it has occurred to me that perhaps I should talk about what trauma is. In our culture,…

https://youtu.be/dhBXbH9K7zQ In the first four videos of this series, I talked about the possible motivations driving your protector parts that seem to imitate your abusers. Their intentions are good but…

https://youtu.be/yICL4xuH4Po I don’t know who came up with this metaphor, so I can’t give credit, but I find it is an excellent way to sum up the process of healing.…

https://youtu.be/H2rDM5_5DBE This is the next-to-last video in my series about protectors disguised as persecutors. If you missed the others you can click on the card on the screen to go…